ALA 2011

Session 8-H Kurt Vonnegut: The Uses of Literature (Parliament 7th Floor)

  • Organized by the Kurt Vonnegut Society
  • Chair: Robert T. Tally Jr., Texas State University
  1. Vonnegut on the Art of Writing, Susan Farrell, College of Charleston
  2. Kurt Vonnegut‘s Carnivalesque: Satire and Subversion, Emma Saggers, University of Essex, UK
  3. The Political Dichotomy of God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, Sarah Smith, Independent Scholar

Session 12-H Kurt Vonnegut: Life as Literature (Parliament 7th Floor)

  • Organized by the Kurt Vonnegut Society
  • Chair: Marc Leeds, President, The Kurt Vonnegut Society
  1. Who am I? What should I do?: Reflections on Kurt Vonnegut‘s Moral Universe, Nick Curry, University of Missouri–Saint Louis
  2. We Are Here on Earth to Fart Around: Vonnegut, Technology, and Anthropology, Cameron Mahoney, Northern Michigan University
  3. How You Would Know If You Met Kurt Vonnegut, Jim O‘Loughlin, University of Northern Iowa
  4. How To Get A Job Like Mine: Lessons Learned, Larry Van Sickle, Rollins College